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Stacker Pentecost: Today at the edge of our hope, at the end of our time. We have chosen to believe in each other. Today we face the monsters that are at our door, today we are cancelling the apocalypse!

Raleigh Becket: There are things you can't fight - acts of God. You see a hurricane coming, you get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger, suddenly, you can finally fight the hurricane. You can win.

Herc Hansen: We're not going anywhere! Now, you and I are only thing standing between that ugly bastard and a city of 10 million people. Now, we have choice here, we either sit and wait or we take these flare guns and do something really stupid!

The Kaiju's EMP fries all electrical circuits next to him, and affects the base as well. If that's true, how did the helicopters carrying Gypsy survive the blast without having their electronics fried? EMP pulses induce current in all electronics regardless of whether they're powered on or not.